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Upgrade HDD or get new device
Hello, I currently have a ReadyNAS NV+ with 4-500GB drives that is rapidly approaching size limits (about 100 GB free, raid 5 configuration). This device is used at home to store all our music, ...
The ReadyNAS is a Linux box and yours uses the EXT3 filesystem.
A new NAS would be faster over ethernet. Over WiFi file transfers are going to take about the same length of time due to the speed of WiFi being the bottleneck.
If you remove a disk, the NAS expects it to be replaced (e.g. with a new disk). If you want to reduce the number of disks you'd need to backup your data, power down, remove the old disks, put the new disks in and do a factory default (wipes all data, settings, everything).
X-RAID on your NV+ (v1) uses RAID-4. With 3 disks (let's call them Disks A, B and C):
Disk A = 1/2 B + 1/2 C
Disk B = 1/2 A + 1/2 C
Disk C = 1/2 A + 1/2 B
and with four disks:
Disk A = 1/3 B + 1/3 C + 1/3 D
and so on...
Regarding Aperture you might want to take a look at this: http://sphardy.com/web/readynas/aperture-workflow-with-readynas/
A new NAS would be faster over ethernet. Over WiFi file transfers are going to take about the same length of time due to the speed of WiFi being the bottleneck.
If you remove a disk, the NAS expects it to be replaced (e.g. with a new disk). If you want to reduce the number of disks you'd need to backup your data, power down, remove the old disks, put the new disks in and do a factory default (wipes all data, settings, everything).
X-RAID on your NV+ (v1) uses RAID-4. With 3 disks (let's call them Disks A, B and C):
Disk A = 1/2 B + 1/2 C
Disk B = 1/2 A + 1/2 C
Disk C = 1/2 A + 1/2 B
and with four disks:
Disk A = 1/3 B + 1/3 C + 1/3 D
and so on...
Regarding Aperture you might want to take a look at this: http://sphardy.com/web/readynas/aperture-workflow-with-readynas/
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